Thursday, September 15, 2011
Tonight is the celebration of the 201 years of Mexico’s Independence the town had a huge celebration planned, although I got to watch it over the television. All my aunts are in Zacatecas and I have no one to accompany me to the town’s events. Grandma is still afraid of letting me out at night alone and frankly I am not in the mood to worry my family here or back home. I watch the fireworks and the festivities all around the country and remember watching the fireworks with my husband over the harbor in Long Beach on 4h of July. I wonder when I will get to see fire works with him again. It is however beautiful to watch how people all over the world celebrate Mexico’s independence. There are Mexicans in places I never imagined and they are all celebrating somewhere out there. In the U.S. there is always such a contradiction with people when it comes to the use of the Mexican flag and celebrating Mexican holidays. I can’t speak for all Mexicans living in the U.S. but I can say that we all know we are living in the U.S. and we should honor that, but we also know how proud we are to come from such a long history of being survivors that we can’t help but also honor the place we come from and that gave birth to us even if we are no longer there. For me flying the Mexican flag and honoring Mexican holidays is not at all about being disrespectful but rather being respectful and mindful of the blood and history that run through my veins. I honor Mexico by remembering it and flying its flag but I honor the U.S. by giving it my work, time, my effort, my family, me.
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